Ellie Maruyama, co-author of the “‘Terrorist Use of Virtual Currencies: Containing the Potential Threat” report, and Elizabeth Rosenberg, senior fellow and director of the Energy, Economics and Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, discuss the risk of terrorists utilizing these high-tech economic tools to finance terrorism. Zachary Goldman, Edoardo Saravalle and Julia Solomon-Strauss also co-authored the report.
In the second installment of Defense & Aerospace Report’s exclusive exit interview with Lt. Gen. Chris Bogdan, USAF, program executive officer of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter program, Bogdan discusses operational lessons learned from fighter jets already in the field, the state of F-35 connectivity and the “competition” between the F-35 Lightning II and the F/A-18 Super Hornet.
Jack Logan, PhD, electrical engineer at the US Naval Research Laboratory, discusses low-cost, ultra-wideband phased array antennas and their potential applications for the US Navy with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian during DoD Lab Day 2017 at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on May 18, 2017.
Eric Gillman, research physicist at the US Naval Research Laboratory, discusses dusty plasma, its potential applications for defense innovation, “Big Bang Theory” and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian during DoD Lab Day 2017 at the Pentagon on May 18, 2017.
Maj. Joe Minor, US Army, program manager for RDECOM Rotorcraft Degraded Visual Enviroment Mitigation (as well as an experimental test pilot), discusses the DVEM program with Defense & Aerospace Report Vago Muradian during DoD Lab Day 2017 at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on May 18, 2017.
In his final video interview in uniform, Lt. Gen. Chris Bogdan, USAF, program executive officer for the F-35 Lighting II Fighter, provides a status report on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program in an exclusive interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted on May 11 at the program’s offices in Arlington, Virginia. This is the first video in a series, all excerpted from Bogdan’s exit interview with Defense & Aerospace Report.
Maj. Gen. Koen Gijsbers, Royal Netherlands Army Ret., general manager of the NATO Communications & Information Agency discusses the NITEC 17 conference in Ottawa, cyber trends and challenges, and the alliance’s strategy in the online domain during an April 2017 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
Jorge Benitez, editor of the Atlantic Council’s NATO Source blog, discusses priorities for President Donald Trump’s first-ever NATO summit, member-state troop-level projections for Afghanistan, and the potential diplomatic implications of the president’s intel leak with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington on May 17, 2017.
Peter Hultqvist, Sweden’s minister of defence, discusses strategic defense cooperation with the US, capability-related priorities, Russia, what constitutes the start of conflict, and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington on May 17, 2017.
Gary Benton, chief of the project management division at NASA’s Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, discusses industry partnerships, modifications to rocket test stands in preparation for the Space Launch System, and wider infrastructure investment with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted on May 10, 2017, at the B-1 Test Complex. The Defense & Aerospace Report’s Stennis coverage was sponsored by Aerojet Rocketdyne.